# Chatting about your telemetry and operations


Amazon Q analyzes your CloudWatch telemetry and operational data to help manage your AWS environment. It retrieves resource health information, monitors alarms, and provides troubleshooting guidance. When you ask questions, Amazon Q may prompt you for specific details like resource names and time ranges to ensure accurate assistance.

**AWS service health check:** Evaluate the health of resources of specified AWS services, assisting customers in troubleshooting and resolving issues or errors they encounter with these resources.
+ Is my Lambda function X healthy?
+ Is anything wrong with my Amazon ECS clusters?
+ Help me troubleshoot my DynamoDB tables between time X and Y.
+ Investigate anomalies related to Amazon S3 between time X and Y.

**Alarm troubleshooting:** Identifies alarms in Alarm state and the underlying telemetry that triggered the alarm, helping customers diagnose the reasons behind the alarm/alert/pages.
+ Why is my alarm with name X firing?

**Application Signals specific troubleshooting:** Analyzes CloudWatch Application Signals service-level objectives and indicators to determine the overall health of a service, enabling you to assess and maintain application performance.
+ Is my Service X in environment Y healthy?

For more information about how Amazon Q analyzes your CloudWatch telemetry and operational data, see *CloudWatch investigations* in the [Amazon CloudWatch User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Investigations.html).